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Gas and electric customers in Connecticut have been spared from footing the bill for up to $10 million of their utilities’ political spending on lobbying, advocacy, and advertising activities since the state passed a law prohibiting recovery of such costs.  The legislation, which went into effect in June 2023, prohibits utilities from using money they...

While many Americans saw their energy bills go up substantially in the past year, investor-owned electric and gas utilities and the country’s largest publicly owned utility paid their CEOs over $647 million in 2023, an increase of 9 percent over 2022, an analysis by the Energy and Policy Institute has found. The CEOs for the...

Gas utilities fended off federal regulations of gas stoves by deploying the same tactics as the tobacco industry to undermine public health research, according to a new report published by the Climate Investigations Center. NPR published a story featuring the report, including exclusive interviews with some of the first scientists to identify the health risks...